Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week sworn in as Ambassador to the Court of St. James, the President named a new head of the Maritime Commission: Rear Admiral Emory S. ("Jerry") Land-once a famed footballer at Annapolis, now 59-who has served on the Commission for one year, is an expert on naval construction and an air-minded (but distant) cousin of Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...passing, the conveners saluted the few men who in only three years have made this novel kind of insurance a nationwide big little business: Clarence Rufus Rorem, accountancy expert, onetime associate director of the Rosenwald Fund, who establishes these plans for members of the American Hospital Association ; Homer Wickenden, onetime social worker, who raised the money to start the first hospital service in Manhattan, now general director of New York City's United Hospital Fund; Frank Van Dyk, fund-raising specialist, who sold the idea to 600,000 New Yorkers, and as executive director of the Associated Hospital Service...
...more news, with its background and significance, was put into TIME. As money was earned it was spent to improve the quality of the magazine. The editorial cost of producing an issue of TIME is today just about 50 times as great as 15 years ago. In fact the expert color photographs used nowadays on TIME'S cover often cost more than the entire editorial department in the first issue...
...designated is a great responsibility; the reputation as an expert must be lived up to--or confidence evaporates. The Bureau did little to inspire confidence by Mr. Roper's speech. He did not talk like an expert; he scarcely made good sense. He advocated 50-watt bulbs for night driving instead of the present 30-watt bulbs. Immediately any reader of high school intelligence wants to know how blinding glare can be reduced by doubling the illumination. And this very essential point Mr. Roper chose to ignore...
...merchant of church supplies, Horace Lytton Varian, president of Baltimore's Ammidon & Co., the Sheffield incident was very satisfying. Mr. Varian, an Episcopal church usher himself, has no high opinion of some churchgoers. He calls those who do not give liberally "snitchers" and "ecclesiastical lice." As an expert on collections who knows that open plates do not encourage largess in the U. S. he predicted last week that in Sheffield Mr. Ashcroft's 20% increase would soon dwindle...